The results suggest that this instrument, with a three factor structure, can be used in future researches namely to study preventive interventions with adolescents and their families designed to diminish vulnerability to psychopathology, namely depression.
Since seismic hazard cannot generally be diminished, vulnerability is one aspect where efforts can be expended with the goal of disaster risk reduction (Coppola 2007).
This paper examines inter-organizational coordination to diminish local communities' vulnerability to the H5N1 Avian Influenza virus.
In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil.
It said a company's earnings and profits -- which are its taxable income for alternative minimum tax purposes -- were diminished by the deduction, reducing vulnerability to the tax.
This experiment was motivated by the knowledge that this species displays CnGV in growth in the wild (Conover and Present 1990): i.e., growth rate is optimized at any given latitude by the tradeoff between the benefits of growing fast to ensure winter survival and the costs of rapid growth which entails diminished swimming speed and increased vulnerability to predation (as described above).
In the later Middle Ages, monks performed fewer solitary tasks, and as the historian Andrew Crislip has shown, their vulnerability to the torments of acedia diminished.
For example, soon after the onset of diabetes, the efficacy of voltage transmission through the endothelium is diminished; arteriolar VDCCs are inhibited, and there is increased vulnerability to purinergic vasotoxicity, which is a newly identified pathobiological mechanism.
Inhibition of the enzyme will diminish production of NADPH, thus increasing the parasite's vulnerability to oxidative stress.
Second, explicit policies to diminish the currency mismatch of the government's finances lessened their vulnerability to sharp depreciation episodes and adverse external shocks.
In conclusion, physical violence, enacted or threatened, links with unprotected sex and vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections 1 2 3 4 5 20 and can contribute to sex workers' diminished sense of volitional control.
